My compassion is for all parties involved. You are trying to put words in my mouth.
Two points....
1. Save you hostility for John Howard.
2. Don't let the ruling elite divide us....but of course, you know this already
topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote:
> From: topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:33:53 +1100
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: re: Elite Iraqi Guard Heads Toward Marines
>
> On 27/3/2003 1:52 AM, "lbo-talk-digest"
> <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We are going to get squeezed from the North and the South.... If the
>> weather prevents air support, it is going to be horrendous. Of course,
>> if US air support comes in, it will be devastating for the Iraqi's.
>
> Don't be so worried about 'your' army. 'You' are not getting squeezed,
> certainly not from the south, which is mostly empty desert where the highly
> mobile US forces have a decisive maneuvering advantage. There is a
> harassment
> campaign, which means that places like Umm Qasar are not really safe for
> civilians, the US has a very long supply line, which is liable to
> incur losses,
> but they have near hegemony in the desert and complete hegemony in the
> air. So,
> I am afraid that they won't be liquidated. Far from it.
>
> As for the on going debate about the desirability of US military losses, it
> seems to me obvious that if there are serious US casualties, the USG
> is not as
> likely to pursue this sort of thing again in even more heavily armed
> and easily
> defensible countries like Iran or Syria. It's not pretty but Iraqis have a
> right to kill US troops, who are the aggressors in this. The more effective
> they are at that, the more the cost to be an aggressor. (Assuming that
> Bush and
> Co. are rational, which might be a stretch.) If you are not happy
> about that -
> I am not - let's work towards putting the bastards who sent these
> people over
> there in jail. Save your compassion for the gallows.
>
>